revisit

English

Etymology

From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre, equivalent to re- +‎ visit.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈvɪzɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪzɪt

Verb

revisit (third-person singular simple present revisits, present participle revisiting, simple past and past participle revisited)

To visit again.
- 1703, [Richard Blackmore], A Hymn to the Light of the World. With a Short Description of the Cartons of Raphael Urbin, in the Gallery at Hampton-Court, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 40584794, page 8:
  Thou, Kind Redeemer, toucht to ſee / So ſad a Sight, ſuch moving Miſery, / Didſt ſoon determine to diſpel / Theſe Shades of Death, and Gloom of Hell: / And ſo to reviſit with Thy Heav'nly Light / Loſt Man, bewilder'd in Infernal Night.
- 1960 February, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 122:
  On November 21 the restored Highland "Jones Goods" 4-6-0, No. 103, revisited its old haunts when it worked a Stephenson Locomotive Society special from Glasgow (Buchanan Street) to Blair Atholl and back; [...].
To reconsider or re-experience something.

Translations

to visit again

Italian: rivisitare (it)
Latin: revīsō

to reconsider or re-experience something

Latin: revīsō

Noun

revisit (plural revisits)

An act of revisiting; a second or subsequent visit. [from 17th c.]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CDXLVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:
  On my revisit to the lady, I found her almost as much a sufferer of joy as she had sometimes been from grief […] .

Anagrams

Viteris, visiter

Latin

Verb

revīsit

third-person singular present active indicative of revīsō